In a scathing attack on Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad for making ‘offensive’ remarks against their party chairperson Khaleda Zia, BNP on Friday branded the former military ruler as a ‘cruel Razakar’,

Delhi Police is drawing up a plan to conduct DNA tests on people begging on the streets with children, to find out whether these kids were their own or had been abducted and trafficked, sources said. The idea was sent to the prime minister’s office by a citizen, who suggested that women were often found begging with children in their laps who did not resemble them. The PMO passed on the email to police commissioner BS Bassi, The Times of India reported.

At least 271 people were killed in Benapole in the outgoing year 2014 giving a clear manifestation of the deterioration of law and order according to a survey conducted by Human Rights organisation, ‘Rights Jessore’…

The lawyer for jailed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, has formally applied to the Egyptian government for the Australian’s deportation, his family said on Friday, after Egypt’s highest court ordered a retrial for Greste and two colleagues…

A specialist multinational team armed with acoustic equipment will arrive at the suspected crash site of a sunken AirAsia jet off Borneo on Friday, bolstering the search for the plane’s black box flight recorders…

Leaders of different political parties and forums, other than the allies of Awami League and BNP, have viewed the ruling party’s refusal time and again to accept the proposal of a major political party for dialogue as ‘ominous’ for democracy…